The skinny: Following Seattle's six-game winning streak in the series from 2003-05, San Francisco has won the past three, four of six and seven of 12. The Niners swept the season series last year for first time since 2006. San Francisco is coming off its most lopsided loss in coach Jim Harbaugh's two seasons. Seattle's Marshawn Lynch ran for 107 yards in the last meeting as San Francisco's streak of not allowing a 100-yard rusher ended at 36 games, dating to Ryan Grant's 129 yards for Green Bay on Nov. 22, 2009.

Key stat: Lynch is the top rusher in NFC and No. 3 in the NFL. Notes: Seattle's defense gave up a season-high 475 yards to New England after not allowing more than 300 in first five. ... Eight of David Akers' single-season record 44 field goals for the Niners last season were against Seattle. ... 49ers QB Alex Smith was sacked four times last week in a 26-3 home loss to the Giants. ... Harbaugh has won the past four head-to-heads with Seahawks coach Pete Carroll, dating to college.

In a story Sept. 25 about NFL ratings, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the 16.04 million average viewership for NFL games this year took only Sunday afternoon games into account. In fact, the figure is a measurement of all games that were shown to a national audience, which includes some games played on Sunday, Monday and Thursday nights.

No matter what other challenges his administration faces, President Donald Trump is keeping up his running commentary on the NFL — tweeting Tuesday about the football league's TV ratings and suggesting it bar players from kneeling during the national anthem.

In one of the biggest crackdowns on the corrupting role of money in college basketball, 10 men — including a top Adidas executive and four assistant coaches — were charged Tuesday with using hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to influence star athletes' choice of schools, shoe sponsors, agents, financial advisers, even tailors.

In the first episode of our new Timberwolves podcast, Jerry Zgoda and Michael Rand examine the perceived strengths and weaknesses of this year's team, which starts the season with internal and external optimism.

Open: Case Keenum lit up the Buccaneers, just like everybody (nobody) expected. 8:00: Dalvin Cook is really good in all phases of the game. Who knew a running back was allowed to do that? 16:00: Stefon Diggs and Adam Thielen: Where do they rank among NFL receiving duos. 30:00: A thoughtful national anthem discussion. 38:00: The Lions got hosed last week, and now they play the Vikings. 45:00: Your questions.